The global problem of enforced disappearances: “Outside all protection of the law” | Written statement submitted to the UN Human Rights Council
23/01/2024
Written statement submitted by Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Peacemakers Trust, The 29 Principles, Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Colombian Caravana, Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre, NGOs without consultative status, … [Read more...]
ACTION NEWS: LRWC Newsletter Spring 2022
30/04/2022
Join or Renew | Support LRWC's work LRWC Action News Spring 2022 Edition (full .pdf) Afghanistan | Belarus | Cambodia | Canada | China | Colombia | Iran | Myanmar | Philippines | Russia | Saudi Arabia | South Sudan | Thailand | Turkey | Ukraine | United States | United Nations | International … [Read more...]
United States: US v. Donziger: Final Report of Trial Monitors released 24 January 2022 | Update
11/04/2022
See the full report (pdf) | See LRWC report in July 2020 On 24 January 2022, an international group of legal scholars and practitioners, International Monitoring Panels to Evaluate Trials in the United States (IMPETUS), released a 55-page report of their findings of US Federal Court … [Read more...]
ACTION NEWS: LRWC newsletter Summer 2021
20/07/2021
Join or Renew | Support LRWC's work LRWC Action News, Summer 2021 Edition (full pdf) Algeria | Azerbaijan | Belarus | Cambodia | Canada | China | Colombia | Iran | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Russia | Saudi Arabia | Thailand | Turkey | USA | Vietnam | UN Human Rights Council See … [Read more...]
USA: Allegations of judicial harassment and arbitrary detention of lawyer Steven Donziger | Briefing Note
29/07/2020
UPDATE: See the final report of international monitors dated 24 January 2022, entitled "Donziger Criminal Contempt Proceedings Violated International Human Rights Law and Standards," IMPETUS, 24 January 2022. Full pdf briefing note Press release USA: Allegations of judicial … [Read more...]
Lawyers’ Rights Group Criticizes Zoom’s Failure to Respect Freedom of Expression | Press Release
17/07/2020
IMMEDIATE RELEASE Full .pdf press release (ENG) See LRWC's letter July 17, 2020 - Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) today issued a letter to Zoom Communications Inc. condemning Zoom’s recent suspension of the accounts of human rights activists in China and calling on Zoom to fulfill its … [Read more...]
USA: Request for UN Human Rights Council inquiry into US Police Violence | Joint Letter
10/06/2020
Full PDF (ENG) Led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) more than 600 civil society organizations from around the world, including Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada, joined family members of victims of police violence in the United States (US) in a joint letter calling on member states … [Read more...]
US: Call to Immediately Lift US Sanctions Against Iran and Venezuela | Letter
09/04/2020
Full PDF (ENG) / Full PDF (SPA) 218 human rights groups and individuals call on the United States to immediately lift US sanctions against Iran and Venezuela and to keep the sanctions suspended or cancelled at least until the World Health Organization declares each country free of COVID-19. 17 … [Read more...]
United States: Threats by the USA against the International Criminal Court | Letter to the Canadian government
26/03/2019
Full PDF Version International Criminal Court Photo credit: Human Rights Watch 25 March, 2019 The Honourable Chrystia Freeland Minister of Foreign Affairs 111 Wellington Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 E-mail: chrystia.freeland@international.gc.ca Dear Minister Freeland, Re: … [Read more...]
